The Powers of a Positive Attitude
September 27, 2007 by 
OCI · 2 Comments
I am going to ask you to something very weird right now. First of all, I want you to listen to your thoughts. Now tell me, what thoughts fill your head? Would you label them as positive, or negative?
Now let’s say you are walking down the street with these thoughts. Do you think anyone who would meet you would be able to tell you what’s on your mind?
The answer to number one is up to you. But, the answer number two can be pretty generic. Although people will not be able to tell you exactly what you think, they will more or less have an idea of how you are feeling.
Here’s another question. When you enter a party filled with friends, do they all fall silent as if something terrible had happened? Or does everybody there perk up as if waiting for something exciting to happen?
You know what? The answer to all these depends on your frame of mind.
Thoughts are very powerful. They affect your general attitude. The attitude you carry reflects on your appearance, too – unless, of course, you are a great actor.
And it doesn’t end there. Your attitude can also affect people around you.
The type of attitude you carry depends on you. It can be either positive or negative.
Positive thoughts have a filling effect. They are admittedly invigorating. Plus, the people around the person carrying positive thoughts are usually energized by this type of attitude.
Negative thoughts on the other hand have a sapping effect on other people. Aside from making you look gloomy and sad, negative thoughts can turn a festive gathering into a funeral wake.
A positive attitude attracts people, while a negative attitude repels them. People tend to shy away from those who carry a negative attitude.
We can also define attitude as the way of looking at the world. If you choose to focus on the negative things in the world, more or less you have a negative attitude brewing up. However, if you choose to focus on the positive things, you are more likely carry a positive attitude.
You have much to gain from a very positive attitude. For one, studies have shown that a positive attitude promotes better health. Those with this kind of attitude also have more friends. projecting a positive attitude also helps one to handle stress and problems better than those who have a negative attitude.
A positive attitude begins with a healthy self-image. If you will love the way you are and are satisfied, confident, and self-assured, you also make others are around feel the same way. Read more
Goal Setting and Why People Fail To Have Goal
September 18, 2007 by OCI · 2 Comments
Goal is important for all successes in the world. We need goal to guide our direction. Like a destination in the map, goal let us know where we want to go and how to get there. There are evidences that people who have written goals vastly achieve more than the ones who don’t. Success is goal. The rest are just added to give the explicit definition. Every successful people understand about goal. They know what they want and determine everyday to achieve it.
Your ability in goal setting is a major skill for success. The goal will ignite your positive thinking and release the idea including power for the achievement. Without goal, you will flow in the tide of life. Your life will be directed by the environment and others. But with goal, your life will be like an arrow heads toward the target without deviation.
The fact is you have more than enough of natural born abilities. These abilities can provide you the chance of success more than you can imagine. What you are having now is just a tiny part of what you can really achieve. It’s not important where you come from. The most important part is where you are going. And the place you are going is determined within your mind. Clear goal will increase self confidence for you. It will increase your capability and efficiency. It also can increase your inspiration.
If goal is that important, we may want to know why so few people have goal. There are four reasons that people don’t have goal. The reasons include: Read more
Uwazuruike
September 14, 2007 by Che Oyimnatumba · 3 Comments
The Yar’Adua administration has been gaining acceptance with the brandishing of rule of law as the all in one solution to the nation’s problem. At every turn, this administration is quick to remind whosoever cares to listen that she will uphold the rule of law.
It is obvious that Rule of law, like any other concept in legal lexicon, is an ass and any clever crook can ride or more aptly, any Nigerian politician can stretch. The Obasanjo administration had her mantra-due process. At the termination of that administration, nothing is due to Nigerians as we have seen that due process can be used to feather the nest the president has interest in. The sell of the refineries and the bequeathing of national assets to Obasanjo apologists, were done in accordance with due process.
Without demeaning the attempts by other ethnic activists that have been released by this administration, the crimes they were accused of are less in gravity when compared to that of Raph Uwazuruike. But of all these “wild bunch”, it is the igboman that is yet to gain any reprieve from the government. Plea bargain and the sudden refusal of state counsel to oppose application for bail on health grounds; shows that “Rule of law” can be interpreted and manipulated to serve political ends. All those on bail on health grounds are yet to report to any hospital for medicare. With the dilapidated state of hospitals in
Nigeria, they could be receiving treatment from a herbalist.
Rather the president had the gut to tell Nigerians in his 100days in office telecast that they are holding talks and for a certain time, have agreed on cease fire-the stoppage of hostage taking.
The last time I sighted Chief Raph Uwazuruike, no one needs a diviner to tell that he is seriously sick. The man is a shadow of himself. I pray the government releases him long enough to get the needful medicare. On what more compassionate grounds can the government release Uwazuruike?
The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra which Uwazuruike chairs, is the most “peaceful” of all those demanding “whatever” from the Nigerian state. They are armless but have a potent weapon which the Nigerian state keeps providing. This weapon is the continuous marginalisation of the igbos. The Nigerian state is yet to forgive and integrate the Igboman into the mainstream. The Igbo nation’s sin is her daring to question and demand that the rising nepotism, and injustice be nipped at the bud. This led to the 30 months civil war (1967 -1970). Though Gen.Gowon announced ‘ No victor no Vanquished,’ 37 years later, the echoes of the civil war still reverberate with the Igbos as VANQUISHED.
The igbos both in diaspora and those land locked in the five eastern states, should lend their voice and demand the immediate release of Uwazuruike. We may not have oil, or the commercial nerve center of the nation but the ingenuity and cerebral capacity of the igboman is needful if this geographical expression called
Nigeria can attain her elusive vision 2020.
Ché.
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RUFFLED FEATHERS
September 13, 2007 by Che Oyimnatumba · Leave a Comment
In the last few days, the Economic and Financial Crime Commission(EFCC),
has been under attack. These darts are coming from different quarters. The most interesting is the religious zeal with which the Attorney General of the Federation, Michael Aondoakaa (SAN) has been at the commission.
At first he wanted to colonize the EFCC but when Nigerians saw through the faint veil of protection for the sponsors of the Yar’Adua/Goodluck ticket, the AG(Attorney General) reversed himself. We thought that was the end of the matter but recent developments show that the AG has being sleepless; nail chewing out ways to nail EFCC in accordance to the “rule of law”
Let me point blankly state, I am not an EFCC apologist but no sane Nigerian will deny that the Ribadu led commission has not installed fear and sense of caution in financial dealings in Nigeria. Once upon a time Nigeria was synonymous with fraud. But the unrelenting effort of EFCC has given Nigeria a good image in the comity of nations.
I strongly disagree with the choice of method of interrogations by the EFCC. Many suspects in the EFCC net have complained of torture while others have insisted that the EFCC officer investigating their case did demand a bribe from them. The major constituent officers of the EFCC are Nigerian Policemen. Their reputation is as good as your guess. All these shortcomings apart, EFCC has done a good job. The fear of EFCC is the beginning of financial transparency in Nigeria.
So why ruffle the Eagle? The AG may have enactments backing him to enter a nolle prosequi or refuse to commence an action but this zealous clipping of EFCC wings is suspect. It is not a “reform” of EFCC on the merit. The AG while on private practice had had cause to engage EFCC in the court. This crusade against the EFCC is a vendetta for his frustrations. It is believed in some quarters that this face off is a sure way to use rule of law/due process to protect those who used state funds to support PDP electioneering across the federation, of which president Yar’Adua is a beneficiary. Read more
Nigeria Rules the World
September 10, 2007 by Che Oyimnatumba · 1 Comment
Victory has many offspring, siblings and a host of relations. Nigeria stamped her authority on the round leather game on the 9th of September with an emphatic victory over Spain.
Like an elephant killed by a lone hunter, Nigeria’s victory at the just concluded FIFA under 17 World Cup in South Korea, has brought a lot of shareholders and some are more greedy than the hunter.
The Nigerian Football Association (NFA), who has been comatose are claiming it is her administrative wizzardry that resulted in this victory. It is helpful to remind NFA that the Nigerian League has not started, while their counterparts in Eu, and other African nations are way into their 5th marches. The problem is the inability of NFA to manage these resounding victory(s) at the FIFA age championships to the bigger stage. At the median edition in China 1985, Nigeria beat Germany 2 goals to 1. This is 22years ago and Germany has gone ahead to win the World Cup, while the best result Nigeria has achieved is a rusty second round. NFA, should re-examine herself, compare notes with other nations who started this battle 22 years ago.
Africa nay Nigeria, is a land riddled with superstition.Where none exist, they create one. Through out the eight years of Obasanjo administration, Nigeria never won any major tournament. The Yar’adua administration’s spin doctors have gone to town that this latest victory, is a sign of good things to trail this administration. It should be remembered that the two editions won by Nigeria (China 85 and Japan 93), were under miltary dictatorship. One has gone done the drain of history as an epitome of corruption, while the other is refered to as the darkest period in Nigerian history, where human and ethnic rights activists were extrajudicially murdered. That the victory came with the celebration of Yar’adua’s 100days in office, is not a pointer to good things to come or is it a mark of divine endorsement of the administration. Read more
Power through the people
September 1, 2007 by OCI · Leave a Comment
Have you come across a person who is so naturally friendly that when you put him inside a room of strangers, he’ll be friends with almost everyone in no time? We call such a people-person, someone unbelievably nice and charismatic that he can charm anyone into doing anything. A socially-empowered person achieves so much greatness, basically because of the people that catapult him to success. He earns the trust and all-out support of the people, whom he had helped before. He never runs out of help. He can do anything with the plethora of people behind him. All because he knows he maximizes his social potential!
See, if you know your social skills and you make use of them, you will reach self-empowerment. Self-empowerment is making a general overhaul in your life and turning yourself into a happier and more successful person.If you can be one of those people-persons, then I can’t see any reason why you will not succeed. You just have to know how to start.
1. Be genuine.
Hypocrisy will just bring you all the way down. Be genuinely nice and interested to people. Once they perceive that you are Mr. Hypocrite with selfish intentions, you might as well say goodbye to self-empowerment.
2. Be the greatest listener that you can be.
To earn the love and trust of the people, listen to their problems and sympathize with them. Do not just hear them out, listen to them with your heart. Make eye contact when the person talks to you. Listen as if every word matters, and it does. Brownie points when they find out that there is a confidante in you. Read more
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